School Closure Learning Planner –

Class: Gold and Silver Class

Week beginning: 01.02.2021

A message from my teachers: Hello Everyone. We hope you are all keeping safe and well. We loved seeing your zebra designs, your zebras looked amazing in their new skins! This week we will be looking at the numbers 6, 7 and 8 and counting to 10. We know lots of you love your number work and we are really delving deep into these numbers to really understand them and be masters of them. We will continue with our phonics and will be soon begin to look at two letters that make one sound-these are called digraphs. If your child needs to, we suggest that you continue to recap the phase 2 sounds (orange sounds on your mat) to make sure that these are secure. We will be adding a revise element at the beginning of each phonics session. We really enjoyed seeing lots of you on Tapestry last week sharing your brilliant learning as well as on zoom calls. You are all working so hard so keep it up! From Mrs Barton, Mrs Adams and Mrs Heckley-Smith

Subject: Activity: Parental guidance: Key resources:

Literacy

Key Learning:

Your child should to be able to:

• Listen to stories with increasing attention and recall

• Joins in with repeated refrains and anticipates key events and phrases in rhymes and stories.

• Beginning to be aware of the way stories are structured. Show the children the front cover of the book we are

focusing on this week – “Pardon?” said the giraffe by Colin

West

Discuss the book before reading – Look at the front cover

and make a simple prediction - what do we think it could be

about? What clues can we see on the front page?

Explain to the children that today we are going to read the

story together (Listen as a teacher reads it on tapestry) -

Can they join in with the repetitive language?

The challenge is to listen carefully to what happens at each

part of the story – What happens at the beginning of the

Give your child a copy of the pictures from the story (These can be

found in the files on tapestry) or look at the images on tapestry.

Ask your child to cut out the pictures and stick them back in the

correct order.

If you do not have access to a printer. Split a piece of paper into 6

and draw the different parts of the story in order (See an example

on tapestry)

Encourage your child to verbally recall the story – We would love to

hear these on tapestry.

Paper

Pencils

story? Which animals help the frog to talk to the giraffe? In

which order? How does the story change at the end?

After you have finished the story, ask your child to take on

the role of the giraffe (We call this hot seating) Ask them

questions to see if they have really understood the story.

Why did the frog say ‘What’s it like up there?’

Which animals helped the frog? How did they help? Why did

the giraffe sneeze?

Mathematics

Key Learning:

Your child should to be able to:

• Identify the number 6 and count 6 objects

Begin by recapping on numbers to 5.

Watch as the class teacher counts 5 objects by

touching each object once. The teacher will now show

the numbers to 5, in the wrong order and then re

arrange them into the correct order again.

Count to 5 and place the correct number of objects

with each numeral.

Introduce the number 6.

Watch Numberblocks 6 on CBeebies or You tube.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b08pgksd/num

berblocks-series-2-six

Look at a dice and roll it.

What is each face showing? Count the dots.

When it land on each number can you clap or jump the correct

number of times?

Can you find a game in your house with a dice?

Did you know that insects have 6 legs?

Watch the class teacher count the legs on each insect.

Can you draw insects with 6 legs?

Watch the class teacher carefully write a number 6.

Investigate ways to make 6

1+5

2+4

3+3

0+6

Pencils

Paper

Dice

Phonics

Key Learning:

Your child should to be able to:

• Recap Phase 2 phonics using flash cards and sound mats

• Learn the phonemes x

Hello Reception,

Can you practise all of the sound on your orange mat?

You can watch the sounds on the link below or watch

on Tapestry.

Look at the picture and the word-fox. Where is our new

sound?

Watch the class teacher as she writes three words.

Can you find the x phoneme? Where is it in the word?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIpcahxNSU4

you watch one of the teachers use three of these

sounds to make a word?

If you feel ready you can continue with our phase 3

sounds on the purple mat. Revisit j, v and w.

Quick read our tricky words.

On Tapestry watch as we learn the song for our new

phoneme.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9P_6PRIF9U

Tuesday

Literacy

Key Learning:

Your child should to be able to:

• Joins in with repeated refrains and anticipates key events and phrases in rhymes and stories.

• Beginning to be aware of the way stories are structured.

• Describes main story settings, events and principal characters.

Recap the book we are focusing on this week –

“Pardon?” said the giraffe by Colin West by listening

to the story from yesterday or following the link

below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_glKhqsWu3k

Encourage the children to join in with the story using

the repetitive story language;

‘What’s it like up there?’

‘Pardon? Said the giraffe

Discuss who are the characters and where the story

might take place (setting)

Explain that today the children are going to re-tell

the story using their own voices and by making their

own characters.

Children to make story puppets (Frog, giraffe, lion,

hippo, elephant) - Look on tapestry for examples as to

how you can make these at home

I have attached some templates for your child to colour if

you prefer this option – These can then be attached to a

straw/spoon to make a puppet.

You can do the same by just drawing the animals too.

The focus today is that the children can re-tell the story in

the correct order – Maybe you could use your habitat from

last week as the background for your story?

Paper

Felt pens/colouring pencils

Scissors

Glue/selotape

Mathematics

Key Learning:

Your child should be able to:

• Identify the number 7 and count 7 objects

Have you ever noticed a rainbow when the sun mixes

with the rain? Do you know how many colours there

are in a rainbow? Yes there are 7

See if you can start today’s session by drawing or

painting a rainbow-

Read, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. Do

you remember our rainbow zebra?

Introduce Numberblock 7 using the link below or on CBeebies.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b08pgqt4/numberblo

cks-series-2-seven

Can you number each colour on the rainbow?

Investigate ways to make 7 using 7 different coloured

pencils.

Watch one of the Reception teachers do this on Tapestry.

Materials to make a rainbow

Phonics

Key Learning:

Your child should be able to:

• To revisit the sounds previously taught (j, v, w, x)

• To practise segmenting and blending sounds to read simple words and sentences.

Hello Reception,

Can you practise all of the sound on your orange mat?

You can watch the sounds on the link below or watch

on Tapestry.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIpcahxNSU4

watch one of the teachers use three of these sounds

to make a word?

Remind the children of our two new sounds (j,v, w, x)

Practise reading-

Will the dog wag?

I can win the box.

Teach reading tricky words he, she.

- Practise blending for reading

with words… yap, yes, yet, yell, yum-yum

Then try sentence substitution

Jack said no.

Show the class puppet- he is sad today, get the puppet to say

“I am sad”.

Explain that he has a tummy ache.

Bring out objects for the children to name that begin with a

‘y’.

Teach /y/ phoneme using a picture of a yak

Say y y y, and to eat a pot of yogurt.

Ask your child to copy the action and say the sound.

Do we know any other words that begin with a y?

Practice writing letter ‘y’ using chalks / pens – rainbow

writing, put out fun pens and different textures or colours of

paper.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVmMU2GkgiY

Wednesday

Literacy

Key Learning:

Your child should to be able to:

• Joins in with repeated refrains and anticipates key events and phrases in rhymes and stories.

• Beginning to be aware of the way stories are structured.

• Describes main story settings, events and principal characters.

Children to use their puppets from yesterday to re-

tell the story – Check back with the pictures on

tapestry to ensure the story is in the correct order.

Ensure the children are secure in talking about the

beginning, middle and end of the story.

Introduce some words that help us to re-tell a story.

First, then, next, finally – show the children some

actions on tapestry that a story teller called Pie

Corbet uses to tell stories. Can you use some of these

actions today when re telling your story? Watch our

video to show how we do this.

Ask your child to practise re-telling the story using

these words and actions.

Explain that today we are going to create a story map

that includes all the different parts of the story –

Watch the teacher draw a story map on tapestry.

A story map is a map of a story. Each box or section shows a

different part of the story in the correct order.

Ask your child to draw their story map - A larger piece of

paper is best for this and start and go back to it, if you need

to.

Paper

Felt pens/colouring pencils

Mathematics

Key Learning:

Your child should to be able to:

• Identify the number 8 and count 8 objects

Revisit Number each number and add one more-

Can you remember the number 6 from Monday’s

session?

One more than 6 is 7.

Can you remember number 7 from Tuesday’s session?

One more than 7 is 8.

Today we are going to investigate the number 8.

Do you know how many legs a spider has?

Watch the class teacher draw a spider and number

each leg.

Can you have a go at this?

Watch the numberblocks 8 episode below or on CBeebies

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b08pgvmb/numberblo

cks-series-2-eight

Watch on Tapestry as one of teachers investigates ways to

make 8

Can you create your own insects that have 6, 7 or eight legs?

You could draw or paint, or use playdough.

Watch the class teacher do this on Tapestry.

Materials to make a spider or other insects.

Phonics

Key Learning:

Your child should be able to:

• Practise using the y phoneme.

Hello Reception,

Can you practise all of the sound on your orange mat?

You can watch the sounds on the link below or watch

on Tapestry.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIpcahxNSU4

watch one of the teachers use three of these sounds

to make a word?

What’s in the box game

yap, yes, yet, yell, yum-yum – Practise segmentation for

spelling

Practise blending for reading with the words:

As the words are chosen, choose children to try to write the

word on the big wipe board. Use sound buttons to segment

and blend.

Read the words- yap, yes, yet, yell, yum-yum .

Challenge your child to have a go at writing some of these

words.

Thursday

Creative

Key Learning:

Your child should to be able to:

• To attempt to write short sentences.

• To hear the initial sounds in words they want to write

• Uses some clearly identifiable letters to communicate meaning, representing some sounds correctly and in sequence.

Explain to the children that today they are going to

be one of the characters from our story – The

giraffe!

He is going to report on what he can see from way up

high with his long neck. Adults pretend to be the

giraffe and say;

‘I can see a frog’

I can see a lion’

‘I can see a hippo’

Can you use words to describe the animals?

‘I can see a small frog’

‘I can see a fat hippo’

Model writing a sentence with the children - Watch

how a teacher does this on tapestry.

The children are to write 2 sentences (or more)

about what they can see. This can be done on paper

or I have attached a sheet to print if you are able to.

Top tips for writing

1. Orally say the sentence you want to write.

‘I can see a small frog’

2. Count how many words are in the sentence

using our fingers.

‘ 6 words, show me with your fingers’

3. Repeat the sentence 3 times, using the

fingers we put up.

4. On your paper, draw lines in a blue pen to

represent each word. The children will write

one word on each line.

5. Begin to write, ensuring the children have

their sound mats to hand to find the sounds

they can hear.

At this stage of writing, we would like the

children to use their phonics to write rather

than copy words written by an adult.

Pencil

Paper

Sound Mat

mathematics

Key Learning:

Your child should to be able to:

• Identify the numbers 6, 7 and 8

Can you remember how to count? • Which number do

you start the count with? • What could help you to

count accurately? • How can you check that you have

counted correctly?

Which animals have 4 legs? • How many legs does a

spider have? • Can you think of another animal you

could sing about? • Can anyone think of an animal with

3, 5 or 7 legs? • Which creature has more legs, a spider

or an ant?

Creative materials to make the animal sheet

Watch the class Teacher make animal sheet with

different animals that have 0 legs (snake) 1 leg(snail-

foot) 2 legs(ostrich) 4 legs (zebra) 6 legs (ladybird) 8

legs (spider)

Phonics

Key Learning:

Your child should be able to:

• Sort new phonemes

• Learn the phoneme z

Hello Reception,

Can you practise all of the sound on your orange mat?

You can watch the sounds on the link below or watch

on Tapestry.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIpcahxNSU4

watch one of the teachers use three of these sounds

to make a word?

Watch the class teacher play pass the hat-sing the

song-pass pass pass the hat.

Pull out image from the hat when the song ends.

Sort the objects into 3 hoops-those that start with ‘v,

w and y’’

CT will model writing z on Tapestry plus our two new

words he and she.

Teach the jolly phonics song for z.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTyi-pZonFI

Explain that tomorrow we will be looking at the

digraph zz- where do we think we will find it in a

word?

Show a slide with some words that have the z missing.

Show the class puppet.

Explain that he has a tummy ache.

Bring out objects for the children to name that begin with a

‘z’.

Teach /z/ phoneme using a picture of a zip. Take a coat from

the class with a good zip and zip it up in front of the children

saying zzzzzzzz zip!

Invite your child to copy the action and say the sound.

Demo writing z

Friday

PE

Key Learning:

Your child should to be able to:

Experiment with different ways of moving, negotiating space safely and successfully when changing direction.

Today, we are going to be the frog from our story and

explore different ways that he could jump and hop on

the ground to reach the giraffe.

Start our PE session by warming up to the Animal

Dance and Freeze song. Link below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpOe8lngp_o

Next, follow the link below to complete the PE session

called ‘Lesson 20 - Lily pad jumps’

https://www.afpe.org.uk/physical-education/thisispe-

supporting-parents-to-teach-pe-at-home/

You need 9 Lily pads (cushions, tea towels, socks) to

be able to jump on in different ways – Have fun!

These sessions have been specifically planned to be taught at

home but like all PE sessions you will need to supervise your

child carefully whilst jumping and ensure they have the

correct clothing and sensible equipment to jump on.

9 Lily pads (cushions, tea towels, socks) to

be able to jump on in different ways.

PE/Comfortable clothes

Mathematics

Key Learning:

Your child should to be able to:

• Identify the numbers 6, 7 and 8

Look at the image on Tapestry that shows a butterfly

with spots.

Watch as the class teacher explores different ways

to represent 8 spots on the wings.

You will need a large jar of marbles and a tin for this

activity. Can your child count the number of marbles by

listening to the sound of each one being dropped into

a tin, which encourages thinking of numbers as an

abstract concept as well as an amount they can

physically count? Children can check their answer by counting the

marbles using one-to-one correspondence. Children

also count backwards to count the marbles back out

of the tin. GET ACTIVE Counting marbles. Drop 6,7 then 8

marbles slowly into a tin, one at time. Ask: How many

marbles do you think are in the tin? How do you

know? Can you check by counting the marbles out of

the tin? Next, count out the marbles in front of

children. You could give one marble each to your child

so they can see that there are 7 altogether. Put the

Marbles or objects to count and a jar.

Materials to create spotty butterflies

marbles back into the tin, counting them in carefully

together. Now take them out, one at a time, starting

with 7, and counting backwards from 7 down to 0.

Say: There are none left in the tin. Adapt the game

by dropping different amounts of marbles into the

tin (up

Phonics

Key Learning:

Your child should to be able to:

• Learn the digraph zz

Hello Reception,

Can you practise all of the sound on your orange mat?

You can watch the sounds on the link below or watch

on Tapestry.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIpcahxNSU4

watch one of the teachers use three of these sounds

to make a word?

Practise reading-

I can see a zoo.

Yes the yak is in the zoo.

Revisit the new phoneme z.

Practise blending for reading with words zip, Zak,

zig-zag

Quickwrite the words-

zip, zig-zag, zoo, zebra

Learn the jolly phonics song

jolly phonics z

Write the word-buzz

Demonstrate robot talking the word.

– Practise blending for reading

Match words and images containing zz

– Practise segmentation for spelling

Watch on Tapestry as the class teacher places the

completed frames on the carpet and compare to the

words zip , zoo and zebra-discuss when we would use

a zz?

Play trash or treasure using y and z and zz words.

Ask children to sound talk the words and decide

whether they are real words or not. Use the link

below

https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/

Insects crafts

Giraffe peg craft Use fingerprints for each number